by Lucan
Summi tunc munera pili
Lessons in loyalty and daring from an old campaigner
De Bello Civile Book 1, lines 356 - 391
Poem Tag: Thomas Gray
Elegies, Book 1.12
A change of fortune
Odes 2.18
Luxury versus the simple life
Odes 1.25
Lydia’s tragedy
Aeneid Book 5, lines 443-484
The boxers
by Virgil
Ostendit dextram insurgens Entellus, et alte
Boxers Entellus and Dares slug it out with the cestus
Catullus 10
A fashionable conversation
Odes, Book 4, Ode 1
Horace returns to lyric poetry
Odes 1.16
Lovely mother, lovelier daughter
Odes 1.2
Rome: disaster and salvation
by Horace
Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae
Horace exalts Augustus, the saviour of Rome from civil war